• Legends start at 1.0! – FreeBSD in 1993 (pt. 1)

  In 2017, I wrote a series of articles [1], [2], [3] and [4] on FreeBSD’s famous version 4.11 (and an experiment to use Pkgsrc to get modern software running on it), but I’ve been interested in the history of my operating system of choice for longer than that.

  It’s been half a decade since I visited 4.x, my familiarity with FreeBSD has grown further and I finally dare to embark on the adventure to look at the very beginning. I had originally thought about doing this in a VM. However while dusting off an old laptop of mine to test 13.1-BETA releases on, I thought that I might give ancient FreeBSD a shot on that machine. It is an Acer TravelMate 272XC laptop that I got in 2003 (see dmesg at the bottom if you want to know more). It is not the oldest machine that I still have, but it is the last one with a working floppy drive!

  So I would simply install FreeBSD 1.0, mess with it a little and then write an article about it. Nothing too complicated, should be done in a couple of hours on a weekend! Except it turned out to be… just a little more involved.

• OpenBGPD 7.4 released

  [...] However, the release notes may be found in this mailing list post from June 14th, 2022: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-announce&m=165521316007652&w=2

• Is FreeBSD a Real UNIX?

  Lets get back to the computing world. Can you officially name FreeBSD a UNIX? No. That is because Open Group company owns copyright to the ‘UNIX’ term. You can call it only a UNIX-like system … but that does not mean its not UNIX. You just can not call it like that because of the lawyers.

  NetBSD team also gave good example with their ‘duck’ explanation – https://mollari.netbsd.org/about/call-it-a-duck.html – available here.

  Apple paid $100 000 to call their Mac OS X (now macOS) system a UNIX officially.

• Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment

  This document will guide you through the setup of a NetBSD VM using UTM on an Apple M1 to perform all your course work on. Please follow these steps as shown; if you run into problems or have questions, please send them to the class mailing list.

Dear FreeBSD Community,

The FreeBSD Project is pleased to announce the completion of the 2022 Core Team election. Active committers to the project have elected your Twelfth FreeBSD Core Team.

Baptiste Daroussin (bapt)
Benedict Reuschling (bcr)
Ed Maste (emaste)
Greg Lehey (grog)
John Baldwin (jhb)
Li-Wen Hsu (lwhsu)
Emmanuel Vadot (manu)
Tobias C. Berner (tcberner)
Mateusz Piotrowski (0mp)

Let's extend our gratitude to the outgoing Core Team members for their service over the past two years (in some cases, many more) :

George V. Neville-Neil (gnn)
Hiroki Sato (hrs)
Warner Losh (imp)
Kyle Evans (kevans)
Mark Johnston (markj)
Scott Long (scottl)
Sean Chittenden (seanc)

The Core Team would also like to thank Allan Jude (allanjude) for running a flawless election.

To read about the responsibilities of the Core Team, refer to
https://www.freebsd.org/administration.html#t-core

Regards,

Moin (bofh), Core Team Secretary

• BSD Now 459: NetBSD Kernel benchmark

  This week’s BSD Now is depressingly honest in the title; no puns. Along with the normal links, there’s a Beastie Bit this week for Networks From Scratch.

• Two versions, both right

  An interesting thought: since HAMMER2 is intended to be a multi-master file system, it has to figure out – and quickly – which is the most up to date versions of any given file. That means you could have multiple versions of a file existing at the same time until that decision is made. That wouldn’t be visible from a user perspective.

• Using Netgraph for FreeBSD’s bhyve Networking

  FreeBSD’s bhyve hypervisor offers support for virtual networks connections. Beginning with FreeBSD13, bhyve also supports a netgraph backend for its virtual network devices.

We have released OpenBGPD 7.4, which will be arriving in the OpenBGPD directory of your local OpenBSD mirror soon.